Banana Fish – Episode 22
Eiji, Eiji, Eiji. I am going to be honest with you, I sort of shut down at the end of this episode. I am of two entirely different minds, one…
Eiji, Eiji, Eiji. I am going to be honest with you, I sort of shut down at the end of this episode. I am of two entirely different minds, one…
The hardest part about covering Banana Fish is episodes like this one, where so much of it is pure adrenaline pumping action that is hard to put into words. Hostage…
There are a few things I can take away from this episode. The first thing is that the relationship between Ash and Eiji is absolutely beautiful. I am hard…
"It's fake news" Did they just? I mean, in the context it's used when defending the idea that Ash is alive and the news report declaring him dead was fake…
Last episode ended with a mess of escape/rescue attempts and that's exactly where we pick up. Ash leaving his room and crawling into a vent to avoid being spotted, he…
Ash's nightmare while being operated on of slitting the throats of Eiji and Shorter is heart wrenching. It's made ten times worse by the fact he tears up and mutters…
Sometimes you're upset when a major character in a show dies. Sometimes you're happy, cheering because they were awful and they deserved the end they got. Other times you vaguely…
I'll say it now and i'll probably say it again, I adore the dynamic that Eiji has with Ash's gang. I mentioned it in the previous episode in the scene…
Banana Fish takes a break from it's heavy plot this week in favor of reminding us that it was originally published in a shoujo magazine as a boys love comic.…
Episode 10 It's New Year's, and Ryo, Rumi and Toshiaki have gone to a shrine to pray and make wishes for the new year. Ryo and Rumi share their wishes…
Episode 8 Rumi recounts for Ryo and Toshiaki a conversation she had with one of their classmates regarding whether she and Ryo were going out. Ryo tells Rumi that he…
Episode 6 Ryo, Rumi and Toshiaki are discussing what they're going to do over the summer. For Rumi and Ryo there's Comima, a convention for boys love fans like themselves.…